Gudrun Sylte

In the Arctic, ice on land and at sea is rapidly decreasing. In the Pacific, island nations are threatened by sea level rise. For people in the tropics and in the Arctic, climate change is real and close. In many ways, these two regions are the frontlines of climate change.

Follow a seminar on new results and the coming IPCC-report in Oslo today.

Will European winters be increasingly mild and wet in the coming years? Will climatic conditions be beneficial for Norwegian fisheries and hydroelectric power production? Such questions of large societal importance are at the heart of the emerging scientific field of climate prediction.

The Mediterranean region is vulnerable to a global warming of two degrees, a new study shows. At 1.5 degrees or less, climate models do not respond in a similar fashion.

Efficient carbon pathway to the deep ocean allows for a strong future uptake, new study shows.

Just now, at the end of March, the Arctic Sea Ice is at its annual maximum. Winter 2018 will be the fourth year in a row with about the same low level.

A long debate of the role of the sea ice and the winter temperatures in Eurasia has got a new contribution. Probably no connection, a new study says.

Who wants to be out at the freezing cold Nordic Seas in winter, chasing storms? A group of oceanographer wants to, read masterstudent Silje Skjelsvik reporting from the Iceland Greenland Project. 

Tore Furevik, director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research was on the programme of the University of Bergens conference on the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Knowledge of Our Common Future. Here is an extended version of his talk.

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding, climate scientist Noel Keenlyside and Ernst Nordtveit at the Faculty of Law receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway.